Bank Prison Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician - HMP Exeter

NHS; Exeter; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 40,000

Job description

Bank Prison Services Pharmacy Technician - HMP Exeter, Band 5

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.

As part of the South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are able to expand recruitment and are looking for compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Pharmacy Technicians to join our friendly team on bank at HMP The Verne.

Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients' future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.

As part of our pharmacy team, you will work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.

Main duties of the job

Working under the supervision of our Senior Pharmacy Technicians and Regional Pharmacists you will contribute towards the smooth and efficient running of the pharmacy and medicines management service on site within the prison. This will include:

• All aspects of stock control (routine ordering, receipt of goods, computer input, storage of medicines).
• Requesting and managing prescriptions and dealing with patients' medication requests.
• You will work out of Medication Administration Points (Meds hatches) on the wings and in the healthcare department, administering medication to the patients or acting as the second checker for controlled drug administration.

About us

Oxleas - About Us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

• To provide a Medicines Management service to the allocated prison(s) on a weekly basis with the professional support of a prison services pharmacist.
• To oversee the ordering/supply of repeat prescriptions.
• To supervise assistants, when in the dispensary in providing dispensing services for all the prisons.
• To dispense prescriptions and stock items when in the dispensary.
• To work towards accreditation as a checking technician and/or medicines administration to provide final dispensing checks and medicines administration services, if not already achieved.
• To ensure high standards of work in the dispensary and when out on prison visits and to ensure all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are read and adhered to.

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registration with GPHC as a Pharmacy Technician

Experience

• Experience of working within a pharmacy
• Previous prison or mental health Pharmacy experience.
• Knowledge and experience of checking dispensed prescriptions

Skills/Knowledge

• Ability to use (or learn to use) computer packages including Pharmacy Manager, JAC and Microsoft
• Some understanding of mental illness and substance misuse and their treatment.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.